THE GREAT PALISADES OF THE MINNESOTA COAST. 315 
around to the north, longer in the latter case than the former because of the 
increased amount of northing in the courses of the strata. 
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Scale 12xm1le to 2 inches. 
Fig. 23.—Sketch-map of exposures in the vicinity of Baptism River, Minnesota coast. 
The south side of the Palisade Point shows the following section. A 
of this section is an amygdaloid, with dark-brown aphanitic matrix, just 
rising from the beach and here and there capped by a thin seam of red 
detrital matter. B is a flow-bed made up of 50 feet of massive, cross- 
